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  • The Story of Don John of Austria

    The Victor of Lepanto

    by Luis Coloma ...
    Translated by Lady Moreton ...
    Series series Chronicles & Essays
    Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, Mariano Fortuny Marsal and Joaquín Sorolla. Don John of Austria: the emperor's bastard raised as a village boy, the victor of Lepanto at twenty-four, the governor of the Netherlands dead at thirty-one. Luis Coloma was a Jesuit and a novelist who worked from the Spanish archives, and his life of Don John was the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Civilizations

    A Novel

    by Laurent Binet ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history from the author of the international bestseller HHhH, Laurent Binet's Civilizations is nothing less than a strangely believable counterfactual history of the modern world, fizzing with ideas about colonization, empire-building, and the eternal human quest for domination. It is an electrifying novel by one of Europe's most exciting ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

    by Jan Potocki ...
    Translated by Ian MacLean ...
    Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Portugal

    From the earliest times to the 19th century

    by H. Morse Stephens ...
    THE Story of Portugal possesses a peculiar interest from the fact that it is to its history alone that the country owes its existence as a separate nation Geographically, the little kingdom is an integral portion of the Iberian peninsula, with no natural boundaries to distinguish it from that larger portion of the peninsula called Spain; its inhabitants spring from the same stock as the Spaniards, ... Read more

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  • The Portugal Story

    Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery

    by John Dos Passos ...
    This selective history of Portugal reflects the author’s fascination with his own Portuguese/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nation’s rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the author’s travels and archival research.“Dos Passos,” writes historian J. H. Plumb, “brings to his material a novelist’s acute eye for human character and a narrative skill that any historian might envy; and he ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Portugal

    by H. Morse Stephens ...
    THE Story of Portugal possesses a peculiar interest from the fact that it is to its history alone that the country owes its existence as a separate nation Geographically, the little kingdom is an integral portion of the Iberian peninsula, with no natural boundaries to distinguish it from that larger portion of the peninsula called Spain; its inhabitants spring from the same stock as the Spaniards, ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of Portugal

    by H. Morse Stephens ...
    THE The Story of Portugal possesses a peculiar interest from the fact that it is to its history alone that the country owes its existence as a separate nation Geographically, the little kingdom is an integral portion of the Iberian peninsula, with no natural boundaries to distinguish it from that larger portion of the peninsula called Spain; its inhabitants spring from the same stock as the ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Isabella of Spain: The Last Crusader

    by William Thomas Walsh ...
    Called by her people Isabella la Catolica, she was by any standard one of the greatest women of all history. A saint in her own right, she married Ferdinand of Aragon, and they forged modern Spain, cast out the Moslems, discovered the New World by backing Columbus, and established a powerful central government in Spain. This story is so thrilling it reads like a novel. Makes history really come ... Read more

    $4.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Records of the Spanish Inquisition, Translated from the Original Manuscripts

    by Andrew Dickson White ...
    This edition features a linked Table of Contents and FootnotesCONTENTSPREFACE.HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE INQUISITION.TRIAL OF PEDRO GINESTA, NATIVE OF THE VILLAGE OF ST QUINTI, IN THE DIOCESE OF ST FLOR, FOR EATING BACON ON A PROHIBITED DAY.TRIAL OF JUAN DURAN FOR BLASPHEMY AND WITCHCRAFT.TRIAL OF LEONARDO PHELIPE FOR LUTHERANISM.TRIAL OF DON ANTONIO ADORNO FOR NECROMANTICAL PRACTICES.EXTRACTS FROM ... Read more

    $5.20 CAD

  • Madrid

    A Traveller's Reader

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    Series series Traveller's Reader
    The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast over the present by the past. In this Traveller's Reader, a city that was once the seat of power for perhaps the most ambitious political enterprise the western world had seen since the fall of Rome, the Spanish Empire, is brought to life in vivid diaries, letters, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Isabella of Castile

    by O. O. Howard ...
    There appears to be a settled belief, quite general in its expression, that the character of a daughter derives from the father rather than from the mother. Fathers, surely, enjoy this conceit; but Isabella of Castile, whom the historians of Spain denominate Isabel la Catolica, affords a noble exception. From infancy to age she followed few beaten paths, and indeed neither in natural traits nor in ... Read more

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  • The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic -- Volume 1

    by William Hickling Prescott ...
    "The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic" by William Hickling Prescott is a detailed exploration of the significant events and transformations during the reign of the Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. Prescott meticulously chronicles their efforts to unify Spain, their role in the Reconquista, and the establishment of a powerful Spanish ... Read more

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